Rabelais Inc.

Corson, Mrs. Juliet; F. L. Gillette; Marion Harland; D. A. Lincoln; Frances Owens; Maria Parloa; Eliza R. Parker; S. T. Rorer & Miss Margaret Wister

600 Selected Recipes .

Chicago: N.K. Fairbank & Co., [1893]. Stapled booklet, 131 pages. Printed throughout in blue ink. A promotional cookbook touting the benefits of Cottolene, an early replacement for butter or lard made from partially hydrogenated cotton seed oil and beef tallow. The book starts with testimonials from the many authors as well as others in the culinary and medical professions. Following the testimonials, six hundred attributed recipes use Cottolene as a......

Price: $90.00

De Wolfe, Elsie (Lady Mendl)

Elsie De Wolfe's Recipes for Successful Dining.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of.....

Price: $500.00

Dwight, Henrietta Latham

The Golden Age Cook-Book.

New York: The Alliance Publishing Company, "Life Building" 1898. Small octavo (21.5 x 15.5 cm.), 178 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A vegetarian cookbook, with a distinctly reformist slant, featuring meat and fish substitutes, and recipes for other meatless dishes. Also included are miscellaneous recipes for tooth powder, bay rum, soap, and more. Some foxing to edges; a few pages with dog ears. Front endpapers with some soiling. In publisher's green.....

Price: $150.00

Gentile, Maria

The Italian Cook Book. The Art of Eating Well. Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets, Frozen Delicacies and Syrups.

New York: Italian Book Company, 1919. Octavo, 160 pages. First edition. An early Italian-American cookbook, emphasizing the relevance of Italian cuisine for the thrifty years of the Great War. The dishes are "representative of the Cucina Casalinga of the peninsular Kingdom, which is not least the product of lovable and simple people, among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense.....

Price: $300.00

H.L.S.; [Henrietta L. Sawtelle; Agate Chafing Dish]

What One Can do with a Chafing Dish. A Guide for Amateur Cooks.

New York: John Ireland, 1892. Oblong Octavo (15 x 22.5 cm.) 78 numbered leaves, printed rectos only; [4] blank pages for recipes. No advertising section, which is appears in some copies of this printing. Stated “fourth edition”, originally issued 1889. A promotional cookbook, though one of significantly more subtlety than is usually found; there is a single mention of the Agate Chafing Dish in the front matter. Recipes, for Bubble.....

Price: $60.00

Johnson, Ronald

Aficionado's Southwestern Cooking.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), x, 124 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The author's first cookbook. While this small work is far from the first American cookbook to treat Mexican, or Mexican-American cooking, it is one of the first truly sympathetic and respectful accounts of the cuisine. The author is also well-known for his poetry, and the complete body of his cookbooks is seen.....

Price: $60.00

Joly, E. Gertrude (compiler)

The English-Arabic Cookery Book.

Beirut: Dar Al Hayat, 1950. Large octavo, stapled in wrappers, 239, [17] pages.Advertisements. Parallel text in English and Arabic. First edition. The author states that this book is the product of her thirty years in the Middle East (preface). It seems she is trying to bring a sort of generalized Western cooking peppered with North African flavors to the ordinary young Lebanese housewife, and that the Arabic translation was intended.....

Price: $250.00

Lindgren, Don & Mark Germer

UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place. Volume 1, Alabama – District of Columbia.

Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. First. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks.....

Price: $50.00

[Thomas Bradford & Co. (Manchester, UK)]

Cooking apparatus: Section VI of Bradford's catalogue for the information of architects, borough surveyors, and civil engineers.

Manchester: Thomas Bradford & Co., 1903. Quarto (23 x 20 cm.), 68 pages. Illustrated. Index. Catalogue 1159. A trade catalogue of cooking apparatus from Thomas Bradford & Co., operators of Crescent Iron Works of Salford. The ‘Cooking Appliances and Kitchen Scullery Fittings’ delineated include, Steam Cooking Pans, Beef Tea Cooking Pans, Vegetable and Pudding Steam Ovens, Kitchen Ranges, Gas Roasting Oven, Steam Carving Table and Hot Closet, Steam Hot Closet.....

Price: $350.00